Gough Motorcycles

Gough Brothers, Joseph and Thomas, traded from works that were located
at the junction of Wolverhampton Street and Wellington Road, Bilston, West
Midlands. They produced motorcycles from 1901 to 1903.

The company started trading in 1892 and closed in 1903. They produced
a range of bicycles including the Midland Mail. They also built
a number of powered machines, and in 1901 produced the Minerva Motor,
using a Gough frame and Minerva
engine and which had a top speed of 30mph, and sold for £38.7s.6d.
There was also the Components motor tricycle
which had a 2.25h.p. engine, and sold for £75. A motorised quadricycle
version was also produced, which sold for £105. The machines were
very expensive and not many were produced.

Joseph Gough was born in 1868, and died in 1941. He was a prominent
member of the Bilston Bicycle Club.